Northeast Campus

Clinical Psychiatry

Altru Health System, Northeast Human Service Center

NEUR 9301

Participating Faculty:     Steven M. Hill, M.D.                     Ellen K. Feldman, M.D.
                                         Jack Kerbeshian, M.D.

Positions: One student/period

Objectives: Following successful completion of this elective, the student will be able to:

  1. Become familiar with the major Axis I psychiatric disorders: criteria, epidemiology, etiology, clinical course, differential diagnosis and treatment.
  2. Further develop skills in psychiatric interviewing; developing rapport with patient and families and treatment staff.
  3. Further develop skills in writing psychiatric evaluations, writing progress notes in SOAP format.
  4. Become more familiar with the major psychotropic medications, their mechanisms of action, side-effects, indications, and contraindications.

Instructional Activities: During this elective, the student will be involved in/experience:

  1. Observation and participation in inpatient psychiatric unit rounds, including  performing psychiatric evaluations and consultations, medication reviews, psychotherapy, ECT sessions, and interdisciplinary patient staffings.
  2. Observation and participation in outpatient sessions, including psychiatric evaluations, medication reviews, and psychotherapy.
  3. Lectures by psychiatrist on various psychiatric topics.
  4. Reading assignments on various psychiatric topics.
  5. Attending outlying psychiatric clinics with preceptor.

Criteria for Grading:  During and following the elective, the preceptor will:

  1. Work with the student in both outpatient and inpatient psychiatric settings.
  2. Observe the student and give prompt verbal feedback concerning medication reviews, psychotherapy, and psychiatric evaluations.
  3. Give prompt verbal feedback concerning written progress notes and dictated psychiatric evaluations.
  4. Conduct didactic sessions concerning the objectives listed above.
  5. Determine the final grade as follows:  25% based on final written examination on major axis I psychiatric disorders and psychopharmacology; 25% based on psychiatric interviewing skills (based highly on improvement seen); 50% based on interest, effort, rapport with patients and staff, quality of dictated psychiatric evaluations, and dictated progress notes.


 

Revised: 11/22/06